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(###) Number of first place votes
 
1 Alabama
Alabama (60)
SEC
Record: 4-0
PV Rank
1
Points
1,523
2 Georgia
SEC
Record: 4-0
2
1,422
3 Clemson
Clemson (1)
ACC
Record: 4-0
3
1,409
4 Ohio State
Record: 4-0
4
1,363
5 LSU
LSU
SEC
Record: 4-0
6
1,238
6 Oklahoma
Record: 4-0
5
1,201
7 Stanford
Record: 4-0
7
1,143
8 Notre Dame
8
1,067
9 Penn State
Record: 4-0
10
1,001
10 Auburn
SEC
Record: 3-1
9
987
11 Washington
Record: 3-1
10
946
12 West Virginia
Record: 3-0
12
923
13 UCF
UCF
Record: 3-0
16
727
14 Michigan
Record: 3-1
19
698
15 Wisconsin
Record: 3-1
18
662
16 Miami (FL)
ACC
Record: 3-1
21
571
17 Kentucky
SEC
Record: 4-0
-
541
18 Texas
Record: 3-1
-
308
19 Oregon
Record: 3-1
20
297
20 Brigham Young
25
270
21 Michigan State
Record: 2-1
24
256
22 Duke
ACC
Record: 4-0
-
244
23 Mississippi State
SEC
Record: 3-1
14
241
24 California
Record: 3-0
-
118
25 Texas Tech
Record: 3-1
-
106
Others receiving votes:Colorado 83, Boise St. 58, Virginia Tech 55, South Florida 50, Oklahoma St. 44, Texas A&M 41, Iowa 31, South Carolina 31, Florida 29, NC State 28, Syracuse 25, TCU 24, North Texas 10, Cincinnati 10, Utah 9, Mississippi 7, Missouri 7, Buffalo 6, Maryland 6, San Diego St. 5, Arizona St. 4.

Much better than the coaches poll.  Tech deserved to be ranked, Miss State was too high in the other one.
 

I would put every big conference unbeaten ahead of Oklahoma.  They haven't looked great.

Oregon rises after collapsing at home? PAC 12 bias at work /s

kentucky is a very good team and happy to see them up there 

Pac12 is weak this year.  Stanford isn't that good. 

tOSU - PSU this week is massive

will root hard for TT to beat WV

Edited by NowThis

Headline, Texas ranked based on merit for the first time since 2009. 

Shit, it’s been a rough decade. 

when was the last time UT was ranked this high? (preseason rankings don't count)

2 minutes ago, NowThis said:

when was the last time UT was ranked this high? (preseason rankings don't count)

We were #11 at 2-0 when we went to Cal in 2016....

3 minutes ago, pearlandhorn said:

Aggy still receives votes. L. O. L.

Best .500 team in the country!

no team in the country can play Clemson and Bama and come out with a win. They will have 7 or 8 wins, win a mediocre bowl, and declare themselves 2nd or 3rd best team in the country.

1 minute ago, jofus said:

Best .500 team in the country!

Saw texags. This has been said. Much chuckling ensued.

19 minutes ago, NowThis said:

when was the last time UT was ranked this high? (preseason rankings don't count)

Pretty sure in 2016 after beating ND and UTEP we were ranked #11 going into the loss at cal

Edited by 2017horn

Texas was ranked #22 going into October in 2015. The last time before that, where they were ranked this late in the season was 2013, when Baylor beat the shit out of us for the conference title.

1 minute ago, 2017horn said:

Pretty sure in 2016 after beating ND and UTEP we were ranked #11 going into the loss at cal

We got a lot of love off that ND win, only to follow it up with a loss in Berkeley and a home loss against OSU.

I agree with the above posters that this is the first time in a long time that we’re ranked and deserve to be so.

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It's been a ridiculously shitty 12 months for me and my family, beginning with losing everything in Harvey, getting mugged on my birthday, my sister-in-law getting cancer, and on and on.

But literally within the last month, seemingly everything is turning around. My sister-in-law's cancer is officially in remission as of last week, the house is finally ready to move back in after harvey, I just landed a huge new job, and now Texas is on the rebound.

Enjoying the fuck out of this Sunday.

3 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

We got a lot of love off that ND win, only to follow it up with a loss in Berkeley and a home loss against OSU.

I agree with the above posters that this is the first time in a long time that we’re ranked and deserve to be so.

That loss was in Stillwater.

1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:

noop, that was the FIX game.

The Fix game happened at home...when we were running out our make shift offense and Dicko went full retard as a freshman. Maybe that's what you meant and my reading comprehension sucks but continue on 

7 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

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That was an exciting finish.
For those that didn't watch, Oregon blew a big lead, had a 3-point lead and the ball with less than a minute in the 4th quarter and fumbled because they tried to run instead of kneel.
Stanford drove down and kicked a FG, threw this TD in OT, then picked off Oregon to end the game.

11 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

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I feel like that was more Oregon shitting down their leg in Nebraska-like fashion than Stanford being a world-beater, tho.

WHAT??? AP must be all regarded.  Where's aggy?  Shouldn't they be ranked after those two phenomenal losses?

25 minutes ago, NowThis said:

no team in the country can play Clemson and Bama and come out with a win. They will have 7 or 8 wins, win a mediocre bowl, and declare themselves 2nd or 3rd best team in the country.

Except Auburn or Ole Miss

1 minute ago, BigXII said:

I feel like that was more Oregon shitting down their leg in Nebraska-like fashion than Stanford being a world-beater, tho.

Oregon most definitely shit themselves

26 minutes ago, NowThis said:

no team in the country can play Clemson and Bama and come out with a win. They will have 7 or 8 wins, win a mediocre bowl, and declare themselves 2nd or 3rd best team in the country.

And that is why they will never be relevant. When you gain satisfaction from being mediocre, you'll never be great.

34 minutes ago, pearlandhorn said:

Aggy still receives votes. L. O. L.

They're the premier, in-state SEC West team. 

4 minutes ago, Kenny Powers said:

Oregon most definitely shit themselves

This definitely.

2 fumbles and 17 points given up in the last 17 minutes of play.

Check that - 24 points

Edited by Disco Missile

6 minutes ago, jTower said:

WHAT??? AP must be all regarded.  Where's aggy?  Shouldn't they be ranked after those two phenomenal losses?

Obviously they should be #3, with Bama and clemson holding the 1 and 2 spots.

8 minutes ago, BigXII said:

I feel like that was more Oregon shitting down their leg in Nebraska-like fashion than Stanford being a world-beater, tho.

I think that is fair, but I think if they can keep focus and beat Notre Dame, they will be peaking at the end of the season at the right time.

8 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

Except Auburn or Ole Miss

not this year

15 minutes ago, Disco Missile said:

That was an exciting finish.
For those that didn't watch, Oregon blew a big lead, had a 3-point lead and the ball with less than a minute in the 4th quarter and fumbled because they tried to run instead of kneel.
Stanford drove down and kicked a FG, threw this TD in OT, then picked off Oregon to end the game.

I watched but I don’t remember any of it because I was too busy getting hammered celebrating our incredible win. 

1 hour ago, NowThis said:

kentucky is a very good team and happy to see them up there 

Kentucky a big surprise.

Duke up there too. Syracuse may get there soon. The ACC is weird this year.

25 minutes ago, BigXII said:

It's been a ridiculously shitty 12 months for me and my family, beginning with losing everything in Harvey, getting mugged on my birthday, my sister-in-law getting cancer, and on and on.

But literally within the last month, seemingly everything is turning around. My sister-in-law's cancer is officially in remission as of last week, the house is finally ready to move back in after harvey, I just landed a huge new job, and now Texas is on the rebound.

Enjoying the fuck out of this Sunday.

Fan fucking tastic! Glad things are looking up for you.

1 hour ago, UTEX_ME said:

Oregon rises after collapsing at home? PAC 12 bias at work /s

Who says the SEC formula can't be used on the west coast...

12 minutes ago, pacman said:

Fan fucking tastic! Glad things are looking up for you.

I appreciate the kind words. Texas winning might not seem like it belongs in that group of other life-shaking events, but it feels like it does to me. When Texas wins, I feel great for the entire next week. I love my alma mater so much, it's been so long since I've been able to just wholly enjoy them. Went to the USC game last week, and it was enjoyable from start to finish. Starting to feel like the Horns I knew and loved.

I think Texas at 18 is a bit premature. Looked good yesterday for sure but still got punked by a Maryland team that is average at best, not to mention in total disarray. Folks trying to write that one off already, just like last year, but it is a bad, bad loss and it is the only game played outside of Austin this year.

KSU is clearly not very good but has been a boogeyman for this program for a while. Show me competent play can travel on the road with a comfortable win next week and then I think a top 20 ranking may be in order. I think the best this team deserves is a 23-25 spot, and I'd be okay with still being unranked.

Tech should not be ranked, got absolutely dismantled by Ole Miss. I think OU is getting over penalized for the Army game. They would smoke LSU.

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1 minute ago, gmr548 said:

I think Texas at 18 is a bit premature. Looked good yesterday for sure but still got punked by a Maryland team that is average at best, not to mention in total disarray. Folks trying to write that one off already, just like last year, but it is a bad, bad loss and it is the only game played outside of Austin this year.

KSU is clearly not very good but has been a boogeyman for this program for a while. Show me competent play can travel on the road with a comfortable win next week and then I think a top 20 ranking may be in order. I think the best this team deserves is a 23-25 spot, and I'd be okay with still being unranked.

Tech should not be ranked, got absolutely dismantled by Ole Miss. I think OU is getting over penalized for the Army game. They would smoke LSU.

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I think anything around #20 is about right, to be honest. Like, who would you replace Texas with? Once you start getting into that range, you have a lot of teams with 1 really bizarre loss. At least Texas has wins over ranked opponents.

And, honestly, Maryland might be a 7-8 win team this year. The Big 10 is garbage.

Qe just beat #22 and #17 in consecutive weeks. Pretty common for polls to place a p5 team in the top 20.

I don't really put a lot of stock in rankings this early in the season. But who else has beaten two top 25 teams so far?

Edited by drifter379

Just now, drifter379 said:

I don't really put a lot of stock in rankings this early in the season. But who else has beaten two top 25 teams this season? 

LSU beat Auburn and Miami 

10 minutes ago, NowThis said:

LSU beat Auburn and Miami 

and if Texas hadn't lost to Maryland, they would probably be in the Top 10 right now. We are where we should be.

Just now, HtownHorn said:

and if Texas hadn't lost to Maryland, they would probably be in the Top 10 right now. We are where we should be.

Horns will be top 10 if they beat OU, otherwise will hang in the 15-18 range for the season. 

12 minutes ago, drifter379 said:

I don't really put a lot of stock in rankings this early in the season. But who else has beaten two top 25 teams so far?

Exactly. Kind of stupid Bama is #1

Just now, Tired of Lurking said:

aggy has 2 moral victories over ranked teams.

and they have 4-5 chances for more.

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